Some of the parents of the children who died in the tragedy at the Enyobeni Tavern have said that they will shut down East London if they don’t get the results of their children’s autopsies by Monday afternoon. The Eastern Cape department of health didn’t say anything Thursday after the final toxicology results on the deaths of 21 teenagers who died in June at the Scenery Park tavern were released. They said they couldn’t say anything because of “confidentiality.”Enyobeni

 

The department would only tell the parents that their children died of suffocation, not methanol poisoning as was said weeks ago. A parent of 17-year-old Esinako, who died at the tavern, named Xolile Malangeni, asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to tell the department that the parents must get the post-mortem results of their children by Monday.

Malangeni said that they couldn’t even look at the results. A doctor read them to each family but didn’t show them the results. “They said the results couldn’t be talked about,” he said. “They just told us the results, but we were never allowed to see them. “They say that we have to go to court to get results.”See the source image

We don’t know why, since we are the parents of these kids. I can’t ask to see the autopsy of my dead child. “They told us that the kids died because they suffocated. We just want to know why they didn’t find the poison or chemicals they said they had found before. Malangeni said, “I feel like I don’t have any rights because it was my child who died and I should know why.”

“We’re giving him the weekend to talk to [the health department], and if he doesn’t, we’ll figure out what to do. “We will either shut down East London or do something else. We are not making threats, but as parents who are not at peace, we want to say, “We will do something.”

Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana, a police spokesman, said yesterday that the autopsy results had been made public. Following the rules, the investigating team would take the results and talk to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). “They will look at the results and make sure they are interpreted correctly before deciding whether or not to go to court and who, if anyone, needs to be charged.”See the source image

During a press conference on Thursday, Siyanda Manana, a spokesman for the provincial health department, said that the report was a secret document because the case was still being investigated. South Africans have been waiting a long time to find out what happened to the children, but Manana said he couldn’t say what killed them. “The cause of death is written in the papers we have… As a department, we are not required to tell people what caused a person to die.

“There are problems between a patient and a doctor. In this case, it’s important to respect a person’s right, even if that person has already died.” He said that the department had asked a lawyer for advice on the matter, and that advice was what they were following at this point. He said, “There is nothing bad about what we are doing.” Luxolo Tyali, a spokesman for the NPA in the Eastern Cape region, said yesterday that Enyobeni Tavern owner Vuyokazi Ndevu, 43, was added to the case of her husband, Siyakwamkela Ndevu, who is the registered manager of the bar.

Tyali said that they were both accused of selling or giving alcohol to people under the age of 18 and of letting their employees and agents sell or give alcohol to people under the age of 18. He said that the police were still looking into another part of the case that had to do with the release of the toxicology report.

“The NPA is waiting for a docket from the police before deciding if any more charges should be filed,” he said. “The families of the young children, some of whom were too young to be able to vote, the affected community, and all of South Africa want justice for their children, who died in such tragic circumstances,” he said. “We are committed to a victim-centered approach that puts justice for crimes against the most vulnerable people in our society at the top of the list.”